The 50 greatest film soundtracks

[Sheeplovr]

<h1><a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2032992,00.html" target="_blank"><font size="2">The 50 greatest film soundtracks</font></a></h1> <p>the list doesnt make sense it goes from soundtracks to scores </p><p>i think it should jsut be soundtracks you know liek the collective grouping of songs </p><p>when its just the music its the score thats a whole nother bananna </p><p>did we ever make a real list of the best soundtracks</p><p>and then make a list of the best scores</p><p>theres a diffrnce i say</p><p>all well</p><p>dumb lists&nbsp;</p>

[sailor]

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[Don Stugots]

Singles, Judgement Night, Pulp Fiction for me.&nbsp;

[jafter]

<img src="http://www.lpcd.de/8/B7512_01.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="500" />

[foodcourtdruide]

Pump Up the Volume had an insanely good soundtrack.

[LOAF]

<strong>Don Stugots</strong> wrote:<br />Singles, Judgement Night, Pulp Fiction for me.&nbsp; <p>Judgement night and Pulp Fiction soundtracks were AWESOME but you forgot another great one....</p><p><img src="http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/42/200px-The_Crow_soundtrack_album_cover.jpg" border="0" width="199" height="197" /></p>

[grlNIN]

Grosse Point Blank?

[badorties]

<strong>Don Stugots</strong> wrote:<br />Singles, Judgement Night, Pulp Fiction for me.&nbsp; <p>those are my three ... i just got re-obsessed with the pumpkins' <em>drown</em></p><p>love any list that has <strong>ghost dog</strong> on it</p>

[Sheeplovr]

<strong>badorties</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>Don Stugots</strong> wrote:<br />Singles, Judgement Night, Pulp Fiction for me. <p>those are my three ... i just got re-obsessed with the pumpkins' <em>drown</em></p><p>love any list that has <strong>ghost dog</strong> on it</p><p>&nbsp;i love the ghost dog rza score i forgot to send mojo pin my adress he said he'd send a copy to me<br /> </p>

[QueensideDave]

&nbsp;<strong>grlNIN</strong> wrote:<br />Grosse Point Blank?<p>&nbsp;awesome soundtrack..</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>no pulp fiction?&nbsp; blasphemy&nbsp;</p>

[Tall_James]

<p><em><strong>5. A Clockwork Orange</strong><br />Wendy Carlos<br />(1971) </em></p><p><em>Wendy (formerly Walter) Carlos rose to fame in the late Sixties with Switched-On Bach...</em></p><p>I checked into this and found out that this composer had a sex change operation and continued to release recordings.</p><p>Perhaps she should have recorded &quot;A Cock-less Orange&quot;?</p><p>Ah-ge-ge-ge.</p>

[Freakshow]

Swingers, Lost Highway, Tank Girl.

It should be a distinction between soundtracks that are a collection of existing songs, a la Pulp Fiction and those that were made for the soundtrack like The Crow and Lost Highway.

I personally like a soundtrack for a movie i've never seen--SFW. Also the Alice in Chains song on the Last Action Hero soundtrack was one of the best.

[ralphbxny]

no pulp fiction...they just gave reseviour dogs! both should be on there!

[hedges]

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Ennio Morricone

[reillyluck]

saturday night fever, pulp fiction and Goodfellas.

[patsopinion]

<p><strong>14. Blade Runner<br /></strong>Vangelis<br />(1982)</p><p>forest gump (imma rube)</p><p>the lion king(rube)</p><p>south park bigger longer and uncut (they put westside story in)</p>

[Hottub]

<p align="center"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/RepoManSoundtrack.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="200" /></p>

[hereintheUK]

<p>My favourite score comes un at number 37. Ennio Morricones Once Upon A Time In America. The music totally sets the scene for the movie. From Deborah's theme to the pan pipe thing that plays throughout the movie, it's all great and totally adds to the emotion of the whole film. Infact I can't imagane Once upon a time... without Morricone's score. It's a different movie</p><p>The instrumental version of Yesterday is a killer too.&nbsp;</p>

[TheMojoPin]

<p>There's a difference between scores and soundtracks.&nbsp; This thread is about soundtracks.</p>

[hedges]

<hr color="cococo" align="left"></font><strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br><p>There's a difference between scores and soundtracks.&nbsp; This thread is about soundtracks.</p><hr color="cococo" align="left"><p></p>

Good point Mojopin! "The Good, Bad, and Ugly" by Morricone may qualify as a score. So I'm gonna add to the list "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" produced by T Bone Burnett.

[burrben]

<p>easy rider</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>cold mountain (only because jack white has five songs on it)</p>

[Tazz]

Easily Forest Gump.

[reformed]

<p>Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels</p><p>The Last Waltz</p><p>From Dusk Till Dawn</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000080">It's really cool that they put Pather Panchali as #4!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000LVJ3F6.01-A2R09GEXPT6NYO._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" border="0" width="500" height="500" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></p>

[KnoxHarrington]

Should be obvious from my screen name, but...

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001EYO.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"></img>

if for no other reason than it has songs by Meredith Monk, Captain Beefheart, <i>and</i> Kenny Rogers (well, his first band) on it. And how many other records have all three of those artists?

[K.C.]

Lebowksi is VERY underrated...a lot of cool songs on that.

But how Singles didn't make that list is beyong me. That thing was a staple of grunge. Pearl Jam, Pumpkins, Alice N Chains, Mother Love Bone, Mudhoney and so on...great great soundtrack.

[Cleophus James]

http://www.helmetband.com/discography/judgement_night.jpg

[jetdog]

The soundtrack to "Everthing is Illuminated" is phenomenal. Half score/half soundtrack actually...for a recent film, I suspect it will stand the test of time.

[burrben]

harold and maude (cat stevens is cool, right?)

the rocky horror picture show (the songs are so damn catchy)

[epo]

harold and maude (cat stevens is cool, right?)

the rocky horror picture show (the songs are so damn catchy)

You are god damned right Cat Stevens is cool.

[high fly]

Some fave movie soundtracks of mine are (in no particular order):
Gimme Shelter
Monterrey Pop
Head
2001 A Space Odyssey
Urrgh, A Music War

[moochcassidy]

sorry to be obvious but ive gotta represent. great movie. great band.

http://www.bargainbinrecords.bizland.com/commitments.JPG


or if its the appropriate day you've got..

http://movies.sitenation.com/images/Friday.jpg

[TheMojoPin]

Friday actually has two great soundtracks...the main one is the hip-hop one, and then the second is a bunch of soul classics. Awesome, awesome combo.

[Bay Ridge Tim]

Goodfellas is such an obvious choice. I'm not talking about the soundtrack they sold in stores, but the actual full listing of the songs Scorsese put in the movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/soundtrack). They're all great and he uses them perfectly. Everyone always talks about "Layla" and "Gimme Shelter" and how well they set the mood, but even something like The Ronettes' version of "Frosty the Snow Man" (which is a great version in its own right) is used well. In fact, four songs are connected to Phil Spector in some way: Frosty, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "Then He Kissed Me", and "He's Sure the Boy I Love".

Trainspotting is also terrific. Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, New Order, Elastica and that awesome cover of "Atomic" by Sleeper.

[Don Stugots]

http://www.helmetband.com/discography/judgement_night.jpg

great choice.

[cougarjake13]

doesnt look like they have any heavy metal, hard rock themed soundtracks on there

my picks would be

crow

lost highway

scorpion king

spawn

[CofyCrakCocaine]

I always liked the Garden State Soundtrack. I prefer scores, but this is a good list of music.

[Ritalin]

http://www.searchingforagem.com/2000s/2000s_Pictures/HighFidelityFront.jpg

[stinkbud]

Ayuh...looking at my collection, Tank Girl, Passion (Last Temptation Of Christ), Dazed and Confused